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Tech leaders slam ‘unbelievably toxic’ calls for 7-day work weeks
European tech leaders are pushing back against high-profile VCs urging founders to work seven days a week — slamming the grindset mentality as everything from “toxic” to “childish.” “Calling...
Job openings ticked up more than anticipated in April, as layoffs also rose
Job openings saw an unexpected rise for the month of April. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, available jobs rose by 191,000 from the previous month...
EU approves first mixed reality flight simulator for pilot training
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has certified a mixed reality (MR) headset for civil aviation training for the first time — potentially signalling a shift in how...
The Download: AI’s role in math, and calculating its energy footprint
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk has turned on Trump He called Trump’s domestic policy agenda a “disgusting...
Matty Matheson is dropping a new signature Gozney oven
Matty Matheson is a star and producer on the award-winning shoe The Bear, a massive YouTube personality, best-selling cookbook author, restaurateur, entrepreneur, and more. No one will ever confuse...
Why AI Is Making 1:1 Meetings Irrelevant
For decades, the one-on-one meeting has been a sacred ritual of managerial life. It’s the office equivalent of a treadmill session: repetitive, well-intentioned, and mostly endured out of guilt....
AI has a resilience problem. Designers and researchers can help fix it
2012. I walk out of a gastroenterologist’s office with a brochure titled “Your Life With Ulcerative Colitis.” What the brochure doesn’t say: A month later, I will wake up...
Robots struggle with endurance. Feeding them could help
Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in just under 2 hours and 40 minutes. That’s slower than the human winner, who clocked in at just...
What’s next for AI and math
This year, a number of LRMs, which try to solve a problem step by step rather than spit out the first result that comes to them, have achieved high...
TNW Backstage meets the founder who reinvented flower delivery
TNW Backstage this week peeks behind the petals of the flower business — but not as you know it. In the latest episode of our podcast, we dig beyond...
